5 Pistons players didn't showup to the shootaround today in Philadelphia

TMAC/Rip/Tayshaun/Gordon/ didnt catch the last name.

In protest of Kuester

hahahahhahaha

Kuester says we will play with who we have...

LOLLLLLLLLLLLL PISTONSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

It was sarcasm. They're in the same boat as the Lakers, great team, didn't do ****, didn't need to. lol at you thinking anyone thinks Steve Novak matters.

The grades really do reflect how I feel though.

Rip shoulda showed up. He could have gotten some PT!

That org has turned into such a joke.

wow, what an unbelievably bad decision, particularly for TMac

Will be ****ing hilarious if we only have 7 dressed players tonight.

"Tracy McGrady, Tayshaun Prince, Richard Hamilton, Ben Wallace and Chris Wilcox did not show up to Friday morning's shootaround, in what a team source called a "player protest."

Various members of the Pistons have had their share of issues with coach John Kuester this season, and many have been vocal — privately and publicly — in their criticism of the second-year coach.

Austin Daye and Rodney Stuckey showed up as shootaround ended, after the media was let in, but also missed the team bus."

Daye and Stuckey basically missed it as well.

lol amazing. we might see some 4 on 5 basketball tonight folks

so the practice was....

Gordon
Monroe
Maxiell
Villanueve
Summers

bwwhahahhahhaaaaaa

lets say 5 pistons show up to the game.....would we just forfeit?

we'd end up playing 3 on 5 by the end of the game.

Isn't there a minimum players dressed rule? I think there is but could be mistaken.

in FIBA basketball the minimum is 5, at least in national competitions, not sure if it's the same for euroleague or similar competitions

Hamilton should've been bought out and moved on to Boston which likely would've negated the need to move Perkins for Green.

Am I correct that Detroit tried to negotiate out of the contract and Hamilton declined the terms?

kuester is gone

You know your franchise is in trouble when Ben Gordon is the voice of reason on your team.

Detroit are in such an awful, awful spot right now. They'll have a ~#5 pick in a crap draft and too many bad contracts.. What's more, their team doesn't suck enough to get a decent pick. I don't see any way to get out of this rut in the next few years.

Oh, if only they had a crazy bazillionaire like Gilbert pulling the strings.

Pistons always have a problem with their coach. Rip/Tay/Joe D need to GTFO NOW.

OK. Well I'll start by totally agreeing that Gallo is better at getting to the line. And I stated that before too.

However, that is the only thing he is better at. How can you say Gallo is "running bad" from 3's? Do you even watch the Knicks play? He takes terrible shots. The guy doesn't pass up a corner-to-wing 3 ptr. He only shoots 41% from the field. Chandler shoots 46%. Neither is a great rebounder, so they could be a wash there.

But do you even account for defense here? Gallo is a total liability. Knicks announcers (Mainly Walt) actually make fun of him, bc of how poor he is on that end. While Chandler is pretty damn good on defense. Especially his help D. His D is so superior to Gallo's that I think it easily makes him a better player. And since their offensive stats are quite similar, that should be enough to prove he's better. And I'm not a big stats person, but when you compare players in tz, stats are all the rage.

Forget the stats, and just watch them play on both ends. I think it'll be clear enough.

NBA rules say 8 gotta dress.

hamilton is such a huge bitch. he proly turned down the cleveland buyout just so he could cause problems for detroit and kuester. such a huge bitch.

labrons still a pretty huge bitch too but woteva

http://twitter.com/christomasson/sta...85836083400704

local radio saying joe d should come down and coach because he has the players "respect" lolol

no comment on who is better, but nearly half of the rooster's attempts are 3's, so naturally his fg% will be lower. granted his efg% is also lower this year (49.6% to chandler's 52.4%), but it's also easily his worst year so far while chandler is at a career best. gallo is def a better shooter even though he has shot worse this year

Only Charlie Villanueva, Jason Maxiell, Will Bynum, Ben Gordon, Greg Monroe and DaJuan Summers were present and fully participated.

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Kuester said the lineups will be evaluated before gametime Friday night. Kuester deflected direct questions about what was going on with his team.
"We'll go with the group that was here.

those 5 will be the pistons starting 5 if im reading this right....LOLLLLLLL

http://www.cleveland.com/pluto/blog/...trade_dea.html

damn apparently cavs were really close to faceraping this trade deadline.

almost got rip along with a late lottery pick. almost got biedrins.

gilbert willing to throw cash around bodes well. cavs to become the mavs of the snow and rust belt.

instead they jus keep getting faceraped.

greeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrr

current 8th pick in the draft and a young competent center for virtually nothing

while your team is trying to give up lottery picks just to get out from under the massive mistakes theyve made in the last 5 yrs.